All Star Code

Today, students from four cohorts logged on for the first day of the Summer Intensive. Six weeks from now, on August 14, they will stand in front of people who work in tech and show them something they built.

Here's what happens in between. They take on three things: technical foundations, AI literacy and fluency, and professional judgment. Nobody hands them the answer. They sit with problems and ignore the fear of not knowing the answers and to find the courage to ask how to discover them.

If a teenager can learn to reason through the challenges they will face while learning the principles of programming, that kid walks away with something an employer actually wants.

All Star Code has a pipeline where students learn durable skills in the intelligence age so they can take hold of their own digital futures.

As Pride Month comes to a close, the principle behind it stays with us all year. Every Scholar belongs to the Brotherhood, without exception.

Some are building careers in tech. Some are still finding their way. All of them belong here as exactly who they are, and that belonging has never depended on anything other than being part of this community.

To the Scholars and alumni who make the Brotherhood what it is, Happy Pride.